Who was the first Indian to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship?

"Praveen Thipsay" is the first Indian to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship. He won this championship in the 1985 in London. It is a chess championship between the players of all Commonwealth countries and was first organized in the year 1949 in New Zealand. Praveen Thipsay is an Indian Chess Grandmaster who won 7 Indian Chess Championship and seven Chess Olympiads in his career.